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Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues is a book by Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Shecter and first published in 1970. The book is a diary of Bouton's 1969 season , spent with the Seattle Pilots and then the Houston Astros following a late-season trade.
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.
The Sporting Spirit" is an essay by George Orwell published in the magazine Tribune on 14 December 1945, and later in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, a collection of Orwell's essays published in 1950. [1] [2] The essay was written on the heels of the 1945 tour of Great Britain by the Soviet football team FC Dynamo Moscow.
The early days of the sport can be traced back to the 1950s and the quick draw "leather slap" competitions that grew out of America's love affair with the TV westerns of that era. In 1984 USPSA was incorporated as the US Region of IPSC. Practical Shooting challenged the then accepted standards of technique, training practices and equipment.
Precision Pistol Competition (PPC), originally and still known as Police Pistol Combat in North America, is a shooting sport focusing on precision shooting from a variety of stances (standing, kneeling, sitting and prone) at varying distances (3, 7, 15, 25 and 50 meters or yards), including shooting from behind an obstacle.
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Today sporting clays is one of the fastest growing sports in America, with more than three million people of all ages participating both competitively and recreationally. [3] Pictures of courses, tower shooting and walk-up (Quail Walk) shooting have frequented magazines in the United States all the way back to 1912.
READ CHAPTER 1: What happened the night Amedy Dewey was shot How you can read this series It has now been six years since Amedy was shot, and the shooting still affects every aspect of her life.